The interesting thing about IntelliJ is that people who have used all 3 major Java IDEs (Eclipse, Netbeans and IntelliJ) all swear by IntelliJ, and yet most Java developers spend all their time using either Eclipse or Netbeans. Hmm. Anything to do with them being free? Well JetBrains is coming late to the open source party, but their new Community Edition is available for download here.
Google Chrome browser coming to Mac soon
Google’s chrome browser will be coming to the Mac soon, according to this post on The Register. Early releases may be found out on the web if you go looking.
Server failure brings doubt to Microsoft’s cloud-based plans
Microsoft has seriously embarrassed themselves and brought huge doubt to the viability of their Office Live incentive from their server failure this week, impacting all Sidekick phone users. Although they are saying that Office Live is built with server redundancy as a key part of their infrastructure, the fact that they have completely failed to offer redundancy for their Danger Sidekick phone users is obviously a major blow for Microsoft’s credibility to run any online/cloud-based service.
Quite how they allowed themselves to get into an unrecoverable position losing all their users data is quite unimaginable.
Microsoft server failure loses all data for Danger Sidekick phone users
Here’s the harsh reality of what can happen when you rely on data storage ‘in the cloud’. Microsoft recently bough Danger, the company behind the Sidekick phone devices, in a possible move to offering a Microsoft branded similar device at some point.
Over the past few days, Danger users started reporting being unable to access any of their phone data from their phones (address books etc). Apparently due to a server failure, all user’s data has been lost. This weekend, Microsoft announced that the chances of recovering their user’s data ‘doesn’t look good’. According to a post on the T-Mobile forums, user’s data has ‘almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger’
Hmm. Aren’t Microsoft getting ready to launch Microsoft Office online? Based on this stellar success record, I’d avoid any service hosted by Microsoft online like the plague. Stay away, stay very away.
Doesn’t look too good for Microsoft. Will be very interested to see how they put a positive spin on this one.